Cholera and the age of the water barons By Bill Marsden February 3, 2003 Promoting privatization By The Int’l Consortium of Investigative Journalists February 3, 2003 ADELAIDE, Australia — Fifteen months after Adelaide signed a contract turning over its waterworks to a private consortium controlled by Thames Water and Vivendi, the city was engulfed in […]

Indianapolis opts to control its water By The Int’l Consortium of Investigative Journalists February 12, 2003 CAMDEN, N.J. — Camden is the poorest city in the state of New Jersey, and one of the five poorest in the nation. It sits on the banks of the Delaware River, a mere shadow in the glittering Philadelphia […]

Low rates, needed repairs lure ‘big water’ to Uncle Sam’s plumbing By Erika Hobbs February 12, 2003 Water system troubles a troubled city By The Int’l Consortium of Investigative Journalists February 12, 2003 INDIANAPOLIS — For 131 years, Indianapolis Water Company, a private utility, owned the water that flowed from the taps of the city’s […]

A tale of two cities By María Teresa Ronderos February 11, 2003 Indianapolis opts to control its water By The Int’l Consortium of Investigative Journalists February 12, 2003 It was as if someone tugged at a thread that long weekend in November, split the nation’s seam and exposed a nasty wound in its guts. It […]

Water and politics in the fall of Suharto By Andreas Harsono February 10, 2003 Low rates, needed repairs lure ‘big water’ to Uncle Sam’s plumbing By Erika Hobbs February 12, 2003 BOGOTA, Colombia — Residents of the low-lying areas of Bogotá used to perform a rather strange ritual before going to work. They would dress […]

Loaves, fishes and dirty dishes By Roel Landingin February 7, 2003 A tale of two cities By María Teresa Ronderos February 11, 2003 JAKARTA, Indonesia — When Indonesian dictator Suharto resigned on May 21, 1998, the city of Jakarta was a war zone. More than 2,500 people had died in clashes with Suharto’s soldiers and […]

The ‘aguas’ tango By Daniel Santoro February 6, 2003 Water and politics in the fall of Suharto By Andreas Harsono February 10, 2003 MANILA, Philippines — In thousands of poor homes in this sprawling tropical city that is as hot as it is Catholic, the privatization of the waterworks by two major foreign companies in […]

Metered to death By Jacques Pauw February 5, 2003 Loaves, fishes and dirty dishes By Roel Landingin February 7, 2003 BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Mario Parravicino, who lives with his family in the dusty city of La Matanza, gets up each morning praying silently that it won’t rain. “When it rains it often floods and […]

Cholera and the age of the water barons By Bill Marsden February 3, 2003 Promoting privatization By The Int’l Consortium of Investigative Journalists February 3, 2003 The ‘aguas’ tango By Daniel Santoro February 6, 2003 JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Every morning, as the sun rises over the Indian Ocean and paints the sky a brilliant […]

Water and power: The French connection By Julio Godoy February 4, 2003 PARIS — While peddling the benefits of free-market privatization abroad, France carefully guards its own borders against foreign companies, claiming water is too important to be controlled by outsiders. In late 2002, when debt-ridden Vivendi Universal announced it would sell its shares in […]

Cholera and the age of the water barons By Bill Marsden February 3, 2003 Promoting privatization By The Int’l Consortium of Investigative Journalists February 3, 2003 Defending the internal water empire By The Int’l Consortium of Investigative Journalists February 4, 2003 PARIS — “You don’t send God to prison,” goes the bitter joke that circulated […]

Water and power: The French connection By Julio Godoy February 4, 2003 Metered to death By Jacques Pauw February 5, 2003 The big pong down under By Bill Birnbauer February 14, 2003 When cholera appeared on South Africa’s Dolphin Coast in August 2000, officials first assumed it was just another of the sporadic outbreaks that […]